![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/inside-us-plan-for-global-strike-ships-with-36-hypersonic-missiles/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/VP-GRAPHIC-GLOBAL-STRIKE-COMP.jpg&description=DOZENS of "unstoppable" hypersonic missiles fired from destroyers will be ready to strike anywhere in the world at up to 13,000mph under plans drawn up the the US Navy. Its most advanced warships are due to be upgraded to carry new "boost-glide" weapons so fast they cannot be shot down. The US Navy's most advanced warships will be upgraded to carry hypersonic missiles Army chiefs show off a model of the Common Hypersonic Glide BodyCredit: US Army The $4.4bn stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt is due for a refit next yearCredit: AP Details of the plans emerged as the Pentagon races to catch up with advances in hypersonic missile technology in Russia and China. Vladimir Putin is said to be planning a new test of his world-ending Satan-2 ICBM nuke, and claims a range of smaller hypersonic weapons are already deployed. In response the US Army and US Navy have been jointly developing a futuristic craft designed to skim the atmosphere at incredible speed. Dubbed the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB), it is reportedly designed to manoeuvre at over Mach 5 - and possibly up to Mach 17 - changing course and altitude to evade defences. It would then scream down on a target at more than three miles a second, striking with a precision of less than six inches. The warhead is likely to be packed with conventional explosives, although the sheer speed alone would have a devastating impact. The glide body is unpowered and has to be launched into the high atmosphere in the nose cone of a booster rocket. The US Army plans to fire its missile from land-based mobile launchers, with a reported range of at least 1,725 miles. It could be in service as early as next year. However the US Navy is developing its own version designed to be launched from ships or even underwater from submarines. The Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile (CPS) was successfully test fired in March 2020, proving its viability as a launch platform, top brass say. Now advanced plans are under way to fit the weapo){kind=link}
DOZENS of “unstoppable” hypersonic missiles fired from destroyers will be ready to strike anywhere in the world at up to 13,000mph under plans drawn up the the US Navy.
Its most advanced warships are due to be upgraded to carry new “boost-glide” weapons so fast they cannot be shot down.
Details of the plans emerged as the Pentagon races to catch up with advances in hypersonic missile technology in Russia and China.
Vladimir Putin is said to be planning a new test of his world-ending Satan-2 ICBM nuke, and claims a range of smaller hypersonic weapons are already deployed.
In response the US Army and US Navy have been jointly developing a futuristic craft designed to skim the atmosphere at incredible speed.